Published by scenariogirl October 17th, 2007
in Usability and Events.
World Usability Day is an international, annual event that focuses on promoting usability to the wider community. This year the event takes place on November 8th and will focus on the role of usability in healthcare.
Each of the events will vary depending on what the local organisers decide to do, but you can expect a lot of seminars, training and presentations being staged all over the place.
I’ve been asked to give my presentation Usability: More Than Skin Deep at the Sydney event, so if you missed the Web Directions conference this year, here’s your chance to see it for free ;)
Sydney UPA (Usability Professionals Association) is organising the Sydney event, which will be held at the Telstra offices on George street:
Where: Telstra Experience Centre, Level 4, 400 George Street, Sydney
When: 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
A program of the days sessions is still being drawn up, but I’ll post it here once it’s released. I’ve heard that Roger Hudson will also be presenting at the event and that Telstra will be hosting tours of their user research facilities…
So mark the day in your diary and let me know if you’re planning on coming in!
Published by scenariogirl October 15th, 2007
in Usability, Events and User Experience.
The Sydney UPA (Usability Professionals Association) is meeting tonight (15 October) in Surry Hills.
Time: 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Place: The Clarendon Hotel – 156 Devonshire Street, Surry Hills
Tonights presentation is by Alinta Thornton runs from 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm and sounds very intriguing:
User Experience 3.0
Alinta Thornton outlines a future vision for user experience over the next three to five years. What are the technological, sociological and business trends that will drive the next generation of interactive product design? How will new tools affect the practice of user experience? What does the future hold for professionals working in interaction design, information architecture, usability and related fields?
It’s really great to finally have the Sydney UPA up and running regular events. There are so many industry events going on across Sydney these days that it’s almost impossible to go two weeks without attending something… I think it’s great.
However, I really do wish the Sydney UPA website would set up an RSS feed for their website! I almost missed this event and I actually did miss the last one, where Stephen Cox was presenting - I was very upset about that …
